War Calendar
13th DAY or ON LAND NOW
The heavenly fights descend to the ground
and Death returns to earth the place of its origin.
Bright flashes accompany Him
the only luxury left to the corpses.
Truly, how evil has changed direction!
The actions of Death commenced down
in the mud, in the hooves of the animals
the boots, the bog, then He climbed
to the black clouds and into the innocent souls.
And now in the desert
that I imagine with innumerable
rosy and sandy breasts
that breathe as they near death,
secretive body
with its dark oasis hidden here and there
uncommitted, like spectator of perdition
He became a parachutist to conquer.
Now the progress of bloody flesh
exists from top to bottom.
The sky, a fiery past
that will be forgotten
and good will be established on earth,
it will be buried deep, very deep in memory.
Manolis Aligizakis 